[Kmymoney] Re: Cannot edit payee list

[Thomas Baumgart]

Hi,

on Tuesday 29 March 2011 10:52:47 Cristian Oneț wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Ian Millington
> 
> <ian at ianmillington.co.uk> wrote:
> > Hi, I'm using kmymoney 4.5.3 in kde4.6.1/kubuntu 10.10
> > 
> > I moved last week from Quicken 2002 standard. Last time I tried before
> > that kmymoney would not import the QIF file as it was too old. However,
> > I was able to accomplish this by importing the QIF files into Skrooge,
> > and exporting as a kmymoney file. Import to kmymoney of 12 years of data
> > was flawless so that was great.
> > 
> > However, I have a list of payees that also goes back 12 years. Many
> > (probably 80%) are superfluous of course. However if I click on any one
> > of them the program will freeze and has to be forcibly closed. This also
> > happens if I click on any of the icons at the top of the payee list. I
> > have created a new blank kmymoney file and don't have this issue so I
> > suspect it's because of the sheer number of payees.
> > 
> > Is there any way I can edit the payee list from outside the program (I
> > wouldn't even mind clearing it) without causing damage to something else?
> > 
> > Thanks
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I think that your problem is the same as this bug reported here [1].
> AFAIK there is no workaround this issue so we should fix it as soon as
> possible. You could try cleaning up your payees with the KDE3 version
> of kmymoney (which should behave OK in that area).
> 
> Regards,
> Cristian
> 
> [1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=268274

Ian, it would be cool if you can turn your data into an anonymous file and 
send it to me/us so we can investigate and fix the problem.

Instructions on how to convert the file can be found in the manual at 
http://kmymoney.org/kde4/online-manual/details.formats.anonymous.html

Thank you very much in advance.

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Regards

Thomas Baumgart

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